Post-Treatment Thyroid Diseases in Children with Brain Tumors: A Single-Center Experience at "Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuță" Institute of Oncology, Cluj-Napoca

Diagnostics
Maria Margareta CosnaroviciMaria-Iulia Larg

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the association of thyroid dysfunction occurring in pediatric patients treated for brain tumors. A total of 255 patients with brain tumors were treated between 2001 and 2018 at the "Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuță" Institute of Oncology, Cluj-Napoca. Due to a minimum follow-up of 4 years, we studied 184 out of the 255 patients. The cohort included 69 girls (37.5%) and 109 boys (62.5%), with a median age of 8.4 years. The evaluated tumors included medulloblastomas (47 patients), astrocytomas (44 patients), ependymomas (22 patients), gliomas (20 patients), germ cell tumors (12 patients), primitive neuroectodermal tumors (4 patients), as well as other types of tumors (15 patients); in 20 of the cases, biopsy could not be performed. There was a 60% overall survival rate; among the 120 surviving patients, 11 (9.1%) were diagnosed with iatrogenic thyroid disease. We observed an important number of iatrogenic thyroid disease cases in this group of patients, thus revealing the importance of long-term thyroid function evaluation in all children who finalized their treatment for brain tumors. Through this study, we aimed to provide an accurate image of the methodology of monitoring for thyroid dysfunction...Continue Reading

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